To effectively interact with the world around us, our brains have to continuously process large amounts of complex information. We need to properly filter the information most important and relevant at any given time, and store it in long enough to act on it.
To effectively interact with the world around us, our brains have to continuously process large amounts of complex information. We need to properly filter the information most important and relevant at any given time, and store it in long enough to act on it. In the absence of well developed capacity for attention, perception, and memory, a person walks through life as a zombie oblivious to circumstances. These most basic cognitive skills do not come easy, and the brain has to invest in learning how best to perform them from the very first day of life. There are 14 cognitive skills that are entailed in a healthy brain.
Contextual Memory is the conscious recall of the source and circumstances of a specific memory. Such recall may include time, place, people, emotion or any other contextual information related to a memory event. Partial or erroneous encoding of the contextual details of an event while it happens may occur due to time constraints, high levels of stress, distractions or poor information processing skills, which is not part of a healthy mind. Updating is the ability to respond in a flexible and adaptive manner in order to keep up with the changes in the environment. Updating is part of a bigger structure called “executive functions”. Executive functions are a cognitive system that controls and manages other cognitive processes. Brain fitness ensures that you record important events.
Other cognitive skills include planning, eye-hand coordination, response time, short-term memory, visual short-term memory, working memory, naming, divided attention, shifting, inhibition, spatial perception, visual perception, visual scanning, speed estimation, long-term memory, distance estimation, and focus. These skills help you perform thousands of simple physical tasks that require millions of complex mental calculations.
CogniFit Brain Fitness is a revolutionary technology that lets you explore your brain, assess your cognitive skills, train the abilities that are important to you and gives you an efficient healthy mind training. You will instantly know how fit your brain is and what can be done to boost it. You simply start by taking a quick assessment that will show you where you stand. You can compare yourself to others and even decide what you want to specifically improve in your life.
CogniFit Brain Fitness developed the Cognitive Assessment technology to objectively establish the user’s unique cognitive profile before the training begins in order to achieve an optimal cerebral and healthy mind. An assessment ranks each user’s cognitive skills, such as memory, from strongest to weakest and determines the relative weight of each skill. While some users have an idea about the cognitive skills they want to improve, their perception is necessarily subjective. Given a choice, users tend to prefer working on skills that are easier for them. Other users may have no idea at all. By using objective scientific analysis, the Cognitive Assessment relieves the user from the need to struggle with understanding a long list of cognitive skills or guessing their skill level by trial and error. They can continue and develop a healthy brain.